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Sometimes I would pick up closer feelings: they were more like presences around me, not on our physical plane but on a spiritual plane. It felt almost as though if I could only lift this invisible veil I would actually be able to see them. Sometimes the presences would feel good, sometimes not so good. Even now I often feel there is some entity, call it my muse, my inspiration or my guardian, somewhere around me, protecting and helping me. I also think there are a few of the opposite around, being extremely unhelpful. I don't know what to call them, my little demons, perhaps or gremlins: they are always trying to make things go wrong.

I didn't know if it was just me that had these feelings, or whether everyone felt like that. I did know I wanted to find out what they were. I always wanted to try to get closer to that place, to lean out towards wherever it was. With my 'antennae' I could sense so much that was unknown, if only I could find the door I felt I might be able to reach it. It's very hard to explain, but I think all these feelings inspired me, much later. I wanted to use music to explain how I felt, but also to reach out, to get closer to the unknown. If I were a talented poet I would probably try to write a poem about it.

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When it all became too much, I could retreat into my musical world. It was like a cocoon around me, everything inside was just beautiful and safe. I could imagine every single instrument saying something- the bass wouldn't just be a bass guitar, it would be a big, deep personality. Music was as familiar to me as the human voice and human language, with proper words and sentences. It all made sense, in its own musical way.

It was as if I was an alien, remembering what it was like being on my home planet, where people didn't talk, where they sang and emitted musical sounds as a way of communication. It I turned off my 'language translator device', all I could hear was fuzz and gobbledegook. An actual human voice taking is not a nice sound at all, most of the time. Different languages have some horrible sounds in them- the strange, guttural sounds of various European languages, for instance- it is not a very elegant way of communicating at all. Whereas the wonderful, musical world was much more graceful, a kind of nirvana in music, a place of safety that I lived in and that stopped the panic attacks from coming.

Searcher08 » Wed Mar 05, 2014 9:15 am wrote:I often wondered if somehow the events of John Bonham's death and the death of Robert Plant's son were connected in some way to these forces.

Twyla LaSarc » 18 Nov 2014 17:13 wrote:

Searcher08 » Wed Mar 05, 2014 9:15 am wrote:I often wondered if somehow the events of John Bonham's death and the death of Robert Plant's son were connected in some way to these forces.

I have it on the strangest of sources, a photographer I once knew who knew Zep since the rainbow grill days and who became a personal friend of Plant's. Candid snaps of a 70's Plant pumping his own gas in Wales- funny and priceless.

She hinted that Plant thought that what Jimmy was into had something to do with his son's death, Bonham's death and the terrible car crash that nearly took his own life. That's why he called it quits after Bonham's death.

Off of Led Zep:

I no longer have the book this was written in and it was 25 years ago that I read about it, but one of the english female punk singers whose name is no longer leaping to my mind but IIRC sang 'Oh bondage, Up Yours' with the X-ray specs, is on record as having an experience very similar to PKD's, indescribable pink light and all. At the time of the interview she was out of music and into some crazy christian/UFO spirituality.

Twyla LaSarc » Tue Nov 18, 2014 5:13 pm wrote:

Searcher08 » Wed Mar 05, 2014 9:15 am wrote:I often wondered if somehow the events of John Bonham's death and the death of Robert Plant's son were connected in some way to these forces.

I have it on the strangest of sources, a photographer I once knew who knew Zep since the rainbow grill days and who became a personal friend of Plant's. Candid snaps of a 70's Plant pumping his own gas in Wales- funny and priceless.

She hinted that Plant thought that what Jimmy was into had something to do with his son's death, Bonham's death and the terrible car crash that nearly took his own life. That's why he called it quits after Bonham's death.

/Led Zep:

I no longer have the book this was written in and it was 25 years ago that I read about it, but one of the english female punk singers whose name is no longer leaping to my mind but IIRC sang 'Oh bondage, Up Yours' with the X-ray specs, is on record as having an experience very similar to PKD's, indescribable pink light and all. At the time of the interview she was out of music and into some crazy christian/UFO spirituality.

Grant Cameron posted on fb:

Musician Tom Waits.

"My dad was a radio expert in the army, and in addition to bicycle repair, he had me building my own radios and sending away for kits and creating my own little shortwave radios. And I picked up things when I was a child that I swore were extra-terrestrial, and maintain to this day that I made contact, or at least I was on the receiving end of a relationship with an extra-terrestrial but was unable to communicate with him because my radio couldn’t transmit... It was a language that did not exist. It was not Russian, I was picking up Russia and Poland and Hungary and China— It was a language, but it was not from around here. And here I was unable to transmit. On earth, we never acknowledge that they exist because it doesn’t fit into our beliefs about the creation of the universe. God made the earth in seven days, then he rested. The idea that there would be creatures out there. The government is apparently keeping creatures they found, and in top secret bunkers in New Mexico, never to be viewed by the public. I believe that."

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... 001&type=1

82_28 » Wed Nov 19, 2014 4:07 am wrote:

Twyla LaSarc » Tue Nov 18, 2014 5:13 pm wrote:

Searcher08 » Wed Mar 05, 2014 9:15 am wrote:I often wondered if somehow the events of John Bonham's death and the death of Robert Plant's son were connected in some way to these forces.

I have it on the strangest of sources, a photographer I once knew who knew Zep since the rainbow grill days and who became a personal friend of Plant's. Candid snaps of a 70's Plant pumping his own gas in Wales- funny and priceless.

She hinted that Plant thought that what Jimmy was into had something to do with his son's death, Bonham's death and the terrible car crash that nearly took his own life. That's why he called it quits after Bonham's death.

/Led Zep:

I no longer have the book this was written in and it was 25 years ago that I read about it, but one of the english female punk singers whose name is no longer leaping to my mind but IIRC sang 'Oh bondage, Up Yours' with the X-ray specs, is on record as having an experience very similar to PKD's, indescribable pink light and all. At the time of the interview she was out of music and into some crazy christian/UFO spirituality.

Funny. I guess. Jimmy Page is now making the rounds for his new book. Just saw him on CBS this morning in fact with a prolonged interview:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/led-zeppeli ... nion-tour/

Janine Safer, the former Led Zeppelin publicist described Page as ‘not a very nice person’. She went on: ‘He was a looming presence in my life for years, and my theory is that he was a horrible four-year-old, a horrible eight-year-old, a horrible 16-year-old and so on.
‘If a child is born a bad seed, I don’t think you can love him out of it. I think he’s a lonely man. He has no friends, and the minute anybody tries to approach him in friendship, he spits on them.’